Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land said Thursday that a group seeking to recall the Democrat from Wayne County's Redford Township didn't collect enough valid voter signatures.

Dillon was targeted for recall by a group upset that Michigan lawmakers last year raised taxes as they raced to balance the state budget.

Elections officials determined that only 7,948 of the nearly 16,000 signatures submitted were valid, nearly 800 fewer than needed to make the August ballot.

Leon Drolet, who helped organize the recall effort, says he will take the matter to court. He'll argue that the state is wrong to require petition circulators to live in the district affected by the recall.